Improvement in vapor-burners



GATES L FRHCHEY.

Vapor Burner.

Patented June 1869;

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

THOMAS S. GATES AND A. H. FRITOHY, OF FRANKLIN COUNTY, ASSIGNOBS TO THEMSELVES AND THOMAS WARD, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN VAPOR-BURNERS.,

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 90,659, dated June 1, 1869.

To all whom lit may concern:

Be it known thatwe, THOMAS S. GATES and ALEXANDER H. FRITCHEY, of the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful 'improvements in producing a gaslight from benzine, gasoline, naphtha, and other products of petroleum, and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a cross-sectional view through the center, showing the different apartments constructed according to our invention. Fig. 2 is a detached View ofthe same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

The object of this invention is to produce a safe, cheap, and brilliant light from benzine, gasoline, naphtha, and other products of petroleum. l

The invention relates to that class of burn ers in which is employed a supplemental `jet to heat the metal of the burner, and thereby generate the gas to supply the main burner, as well as itself 5 and it consists in attaching to the side of the main burner a vertical tube or air-passage, open both at top and bottom, and having about midway of the length of the burner a small-orifice communicating from the latter to the tube, such orifice serving as a heating-burner.

To enable others to understand the nature and construction of our invention, we will proceed to describe it with reference to the drawings.

L represents the funnel or opening` atthe top, through which is poured the fluid into the reservoir K, which supplies the pipe J J, and is there shut orf from or let on to a further passage by the stop-cock I, when it may become necessary to light or extinguish the lamp. When the lamp is to be lighted the aforesaid cock I is opened, and the uid passes through the short pipe containing the packing H, which is to regulate the flow of the same, it then reaches the generating-chamber G, on the outer surface of which is to be held at the time a lighted torch, to produce heat, which generates the fluid into gas, a process which requires but a few seconds of time. The gas, as it is generated, then passes through the small pin-hole F into the gaschamber'B, thence upward and out at the opening A, where it ignites and produces a broad bright light. The said opening A is made of a suitable size to conform with the aforesaid pin-hole F. The gas, being ignited at the .aforesaid opening A, also ignites a small jet at the opening O in chamber E, to

produce heat to generate gas in chamber G.

It will thus be observed that both jets need not be separately lighted; but that the lighting of the-larger one, by reason of both oritices communicating with the same gas-chamber, and the top of tube E being near to the opening A, ignites the gas at the smaller one, which thus becomes actually self-lighting.

The aforesaid heating-chamber E is constructed in the form of a hollow tube, being open at both ends, and brazed to one side 0f the outer surface of chambers G and B, as is seen in Figs. l and 2, withv the top opening X at one side of the flame, so as to prevent the heat from interfering with the light.

This tube protects the flame at all sides, and further supplies it constantly with a steady current of air to support and perfect the combustion, while any soot that may be deposited, being within the tube, cannot come in contact with the person.

The air-holes D, in Figs. I and 2, are to admit air into the gas-chamber B to prevent the illuminating-dame from smoking.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with the main burner, having the chambers B and G, of the vertical tube E, connected thereto and communicating therewith, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

THOS. S. GATES. A. H. FRITGHEY. Signed and sealed in presence oil- J. E. TAYLOR, SAML. GULICK.

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